Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity’s dirty plates, though oftentimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

Yet time makes ravens of us all. And so I pick the memories from the crevices of my brain. Again and over, I find myself returning to that windswept maternity ward in which I arose like a phoenix from my mother’s dimly lit womb ready to greet the world like an archangel with my own set of profoundly soft and bubbling truths with which to mark—permanently and ineradicably—my legendary very first diaper.

WAs surprised to see no votes for Radio Ethiopia. Would have thought at least somebody would have plunked for it.Think it was dismissed as her 'heavy metal' lp for years. Certainly seem to remember it being called that in the books I was introduced to her through. It is more heavily guitar dominated than Horses but I don't think I'd be going metal, that being somewhat inherently pejorative, in describing it. Think influences from the ballroom scene etc that Kaye was into earlier are showing through.I just put the whole lp on my walkman so it can turn up at random. Think it's pretty great. Do like Horses too and bits of Easter.

Had a thought concerning Lenny Kaye & Nuggets I'd been meaning to post somewhere. I'd wondered if Lenny Kaye's working in a 2nd hand record shop in the early 70s had contributed to his idea of compiling a set of mid 60s One Hit Wonders. Like, was it something that he was recognising a market for that lead to him compiling Nuggets which otherwise was a bit out of the blue in terms of releasing in the early 70s. Think I heard about Kaye being asked to compile something along somewhat different grounds that wound up becoming the Nuggets set once he got his hands on it.